Is it impossible to connect a Win 10 tablet to a Win 7 PC via USB?

Eric Pode | 09 May 2018 | Eric Pode

[PAR35]

to a Lenovo Yoga tablet (Win 10) to copy over about 40 gig of files.

First Question: Is the tablet really going to be able to hold 40 gigs of files on top of a Win10 operating system and anything else you have on there?

[Conan the Librarian]

Does your desktop have wifi?

You can make the Windows 10 computer a hotspot, connect the desktop to it and make a network drive to copy files from/to.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Where there is a will there is a way:

[semimojo]

ftp and Ethernet cable.

Doesn't work very well with a tablet like the Yoga that doesn't have an ethernet port.

[MarkL]

If you’re thinking of using a USB cable, then the 2 computers should be close to each other.

You said that your network is very slow. Are you using Wireless?

If you have an Ethernet cable, you have about an 80% chance that you can simply plug the 2 computers together and they’ll communicate (there’s a technology built in to the adapters called MDIX that nearly always works, to eliminate the need for a “cross-over” cable.)

Once the computers are connected, assign network addresses to both computers (each needs a unique address.) Safe settings for TCP/IP you can use are:

COMPUTER1
IP Addr: 10.1.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway: 10.1.1.2
DNS Server: 8.8.8.8 (you can leave this blank.)

COMPUTER2
IP Addr: 10.1.1.2
Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway: 10.1.1.1
DNS Server: 8.8.8.8 (you can leave this blank.)

Set up a share on the Windows 7 computer where the files exist, and map a drive on the Windows 10 computer to the share you set up on the Windows 7 computer.

You should be able to copy files directly from the Windows 7 computer to the Windows 10 computer.

Or you should be able to pick up a 32GB USB thumb drive for about $20 or less and use that to transfer all the files.

Mark

[MarkL]

I paid $1000 for a used 20MB full height 5 1/4” hard drive in 1986.

I needed it to be able to load and run the Altos Xenix development system on my Altos 586 (10MHz 8086, 1MB RAM, 5 serial ports.)

Mark

[the_daug]

use router with ethernet hub and wifi.

[trebb]

I use my WiFi option when time isn't essential -like over night....even so, it doesn't interfere with normal use on a machine if I have files transferring.

I also use a stand-alone USB hard drive to save files and then to make larger transfers - doing it that way is convenient because it keeps a safe copy of everything that isn't stored on a computer but it isn't much faster than using a USB stick....by the time you get a good answer, you would have been able to transfer the files via floppy....